Isolation Quotes - Page 4

No practice exists in isolation.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Isolation must precede true society.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

It's so difficult to figure out how to offer support and also be honest with someone you love who's in a damaging relationship without making them feel defensive and retreating even further into isolation.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.